Please Give (movie)

The world of moneyed Northern California liberals — a specific genus of the 1 percent all its own — is satirized from within in the seriocomic indie "Last Weekend" (at the Siskel Film Center through Oct. 9). It is Labor Day weekend and as the family and their guests sit down for dinner at a gorgeously laid table at a pricey vacation home in Lake Tahoe, Patricia Clarkson (as the matriarch) explains that their meal was prepared according to a diet that assigns a carbon emissions point system to the provenance of each food item. Everything on the menu scored well except for the bread, which is "from a bakery in town," she says, prattling on, which should have...

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